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Pay attention, FF 2 predates acid 3, yet it scores much higher on acid 3 than even IE 9.

IE9 hasn't been released yet; or did you mean, a super early preliminary build in the early stages of IE9 development which probably has little to do with how the final product will look like? We haven't even shipped a developer preview release yet ...

(disclosure: I work on the IE team)

"IE8 scores 20/100, which is still much worse than all relevant competitors in their versions from the test's release, and has some problems with rendering the Acid3 test page."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

So you're "IE9 is beta" argument doesn't hold, IE8 doesn't beat a browser that predates Acid3, either.

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